Denver and Rio Grande Western No. 169 is a "Ten Wheeler" type

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steam railway locomotive. It is one of twelve similar locomotives built for the

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in 1883. It was built as a passenger locomotive, with drivers, the second largest drivers used on any three foot gauge D&RGW locomotive. (The K-37s have drivers.) During its operational life it was used on all of the major D&RGW

lines. It appears in two Otto Perry photographs on the branch to

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in April 1933. It was taken out of service in 1938 and then refurbished in 1939 to appear at the

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. In 1941, the railroad donated it to the City of Alamosa and it has been in Cole Park there since. It was added to the

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as Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Locomotive No.169 in 2001.

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